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Editorial
Acronyms with great potential
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Sinai Hotels
Photo exhibition in Vienna
Dialogue between man, nature and art
Dani Karavan retrospective in Berlin
Concrete wine from concrete eggs
creative concrete heads: Armin D. Rogall
opus C quiz
Creative experiments

Pritzker Prize 2008 for Jean Nouvel
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The 2008 Architekturpreis Beton
The Architecture in Concrete Award for outstanding buildings in Germany
Winner project:
Digital modernity in fair-faced concrete
The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart
Art in an industrial estate
Musée Würth France in Erstein in the Alsace
9 = 12 New living experience in Vienna
A housing project showcasing trend-setting application of concrete
With road contact
Administration building and bus garage of the RATP in Thiais, France
Façade making an impression
Textures concrete for a sports hall in Germany
Bodensee pebble
The organically formed event hall of a media house at Lake Constance
Cryptic cube
Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen
Monolithic in insulating concrete

Gartmann fair faced concrete house in Chur, Switzerland
Dual Effect
Structural façades for the Steinmürli schoolhouse in Dietikon, Switzerland
opus C classics:
Work of art for works of art
Tadao Ando's Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis
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Complex cross-section
Exciting self-climbing at the River Suir Bridge in Waterford, Ireland
Transponder technology
"Personalised" concrete formwork systems with RFID chips
Underground palace
Formwork technology for the concstruction of a metro station in Moscow
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Functionality in the façade
Sunscreening with concrete unites technology with design
History and development of concrete
From a low-tech to a high-tech material – part 2:
SCC – self compacting concrete
Air purification with concrete
Degradation of pollutants by photocatalytic cement
100 tonnes in weight – 100% watertight
Floating concrete cellar as demonstrative proof
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Making concrete
Students design furniture made of concrete
Exciting dialogue
Gothic meets modern in the Kruisheren Hotel in Maastricht, Holland
Concrete meets greenery
New ideas for living with concrete at the Neu-Ulm Garden Show
Light in the night
NightTec pavers with a concrete aggregate of luminous crystals
"Happiness underway searching for"

Sensual concrete sculpture in the Odenwald
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